HOW TO RELIEVE GAS?

[LazerBeakShiek]

My position on USED instruments is 'just say no'. It's hard these days. What is real or fake. Clones. But then sometimes you find these nuts, and they re all experts you know.

- So I got this one deal brewing and now I'm really worried. Like what's up with this guy. He doesn't know I'm super awesome, and big time educated. Life. It is the ones you'd least expect. It;s how we'd survive.

Like, yall better check the pick guard make sure it is grounded. Fix yer head

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

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Honestly , most of the time, my guitar goes straight into the preamp. Nothing infront. However, for certain sounds you need a pedal comp and OD/Distortion.
Of my few pedals, I like classic DOD.

CAE 3+ (Kay 3) powered by a Mesa Dyna 20/20. There is a Korg A3 for reverb and gate and meter. DOD, OD to Comp to simple Delay

 

[Old Music Guy]

Yeah man, it has always been rock n' roll to go OD then Compressor.

wait what day is it?

So, today, I researched pedal board arrangements, And I think I found a good answer. At least for me, it makes sense.
Guitar → MXR Studio Compressor → Ibanez Tube Screamer → Klon (Behringer) → Ernie Ball Jr Volume → Boss CH-1 → Boss DD-3T → Amp
The compressor "normalizes" (my word) the signal from the guitar. The volume control on the guitar helps shape the signal into the compressor.
The output to the ODs get a nice signal from the compressor. This help flatten out picking, adds a little more sustain. Of course this depends on the ADSR settings.
The ODs then feed the volume PEDAL. This won't affect the input into the compressor, only the overall volume i.e. Master Gain.
From there into the effects pedal(s) which are additive and have no relationship to the amplitude and integrity of overall signal.
Then into the amp. The suggestion was to use the effect pedals using the effects Send/Receive of the amp, but that's to wiry for me.
I'm gonna try it and see how it works out.
It made a lot of sense to me: moving the volume pedal.

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[PorterhouseMusic]

Now this thing is on my radar. Want? Yes. Need? No.

Newton Channel — Rupert Neve Designs

The Newton includes a fully class-A mic preamp with classic Rupert Neve sound, a highly musical 3-band discrete EQ, the latest version of our fast & flexible VCA compressor, our revolutionary harmonic saturation circuit: variable Silk Red and Blue, and of course, custom Rupert Neve Designs trans

rupertneve.com

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

i went OD then a Compressor, because there is no input gain in the Comp I used. The OD pedal is the preamp to get the signal in range of the compressor threshold.

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

Now this thing is on my radar. Want? Yes. Need? No.

Newton Channel — Rupert Neve Designs

The Newton includes a fully class-A mic preamp with classic Rupert Neve sound, a highly musical 3-band discrete EQ, the latest version of our fast & flexible VCA compressor, our revolutionary harmonic saturation circuit: variable Silk Red and Blue, and of course, custom Rupert Neve Designs trans

rupertneve.com

yeah cool.

Are there any pedals that really do something cool? Something nothing else does.

This Korg Octaver has the stuff. The pedal is for bass. Dial it in real mild. Pedal switch has a positive click. The tracking is horrible. However, the BAD tracking is the signature of this effects pedal. So bad it is good. Awesome, even if not the best octave pedal I ever found.

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

This is the best Fuzz pedal.

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

Best chorus and flanger go to MXR.

The EVH117 and the M134 are that 18 volt series still sold today.
The EVH117 is not the MOST 'Jet'
The most Jet is the DOD FX747.

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

3 compressors for electric guitar that are better than nothing..

1 Marshall Compressor Pedal ED-1
2 Boss CP-1X " the silver screw "
3 DOD milk box

 

[Slouching Raymond]

This is the best Fuzz pedal.

Not so fast there LBS. I had (maybe still have) an Electroharmonix Little Big Muff.
It was good and very smooth. Only problem was it ate batteries, and you had to dismantle the box
to change the battery:

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

What about OD or distortion? The Ibanez tubescreamer is a trick, don't go there.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

OTW from GC Sacramento. 2021 MIM 75th anniversary standard. Strat in storage far away, a ‘98 LP Std with me for playing, Taylor 414ce. Needed a local single coil and miss my ‘99 Tele I sold years ago to buy the Strat. Has the Fender American series single-slot Fastlane humbucker pre-installed at bridge.

First guitar purchase in 10 years and have been looking a few weeks. Should be here late next week for an audition. Almost did a Bill Lawrence replacement on my ‘99 Am Tele but sold it before I did. Curious to hear the little girl.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

So when she arrives, time to find out whether this was a kid first time using a soldering iron and what kind of rail pickup in the bridge. Bridge and saddles are not stock on ‘21 MIM and found on Fender’s site. I’d prefer the six saddle Strat style usually, but I’ll try them before replacing.

The humbucker rail in the bridge I would’ve replaced, maybe with something not as (assumedly) hot, but would’ve been a humbucker. Part of why I chose this particular guitar. My ‘99 Am Std weak spot was the single coil bridge pup. Neck was sublime stock, but bridge was decent clean, sucked with any kind of OD. Adjusted heights, pedal vs natural tube amp…it just didn’t translate well with OD so limitation. Curious what rail humbucker ole boy or ole girl put in there. If self-soldered, hope they knew wtf they were doing.

Geetar arrives mid next week so I’ll find out from there. Any online purchase is a shoot for the stars, but this model is good and from pics, should be a decent player/studio tool.

Irrelevant to performance, but I do like the finish, except this will be my only Maple fretboard guitar now. Done it in the past and it’s a little adjustment, dark to light to dark fretboards, visually. I’ll manage.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Anybody know why "Gold Tops" are gold?

Allegedly, same with black beauties and gold hardware, to match bands that were expected to dress in tuxedoes for professional musicians back in the day and match/complement the attire. It was a time when musicians were professional and expected to ‘look professional’, synchronized, prim and proper. Gold and black was fancy in that era. Black tuxedos and gold jewelry/cudd links was the top-notch band you wanted to play a wedding, a party, a formal event. Paid a beer budget, expected to perform and be a champagne band.

After that began the Gibson sunburst finishes, the ‘artistic’ finishes for the rebels in music. But solid cherry red finishes as well for pioneers like Chick Berry.

But finishes of early electric guitars were based on professional style early on, then advanced as rock and roll became popular and think of ‘sunburst’ as a rebel the-die. Finishes became a sign of the times and rebellistic. Early solid colors including Fender were formal because they were instruments in professional musician bands making money and looking to blends into gigs they were hired to play, not uncomfortable new tech (which electric guitars were for a few years), so seat it comfortably with amplified sound without shocking clients. Keep colors safe, including black beauties, gold tops, and earlier natural finish Fenders.

Fancier finishes gained popularity as music (namely rock n roll) grew in popularity and became less conservative.

That’s my recollection is research and reading, anyway.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Don’t own a gold too but a wonderful ‘85 LP custom ‘black beauty’ and best of my 3 LPs, ebony gold hardware. It could be babyshit brown and still be may fav, but that is the root of the color scheme.